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Box This box arrived for me in the mail while I was at work that Thursday. |
Box, Closeup Not too shabby for $10 shipping. |
Box with Cat This probably offers some idea of the scale of the box. |
Open Box Inside were four boxes full of legos, a manual, and a divider. |
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Piles of Pieces Our coffee table just barely fit all of the pieces. (And not without damage) |
The Base (1:45 into the building) The first step of the building process: build the base to assemble the rest of the LEGOs onto. This took me nearly two hours. |
Superstructure (3:00) By three hours in, I had a the internal superstructure finished. Jesse was sitting behind my head most of this time, annoyed that I was ignoring him. |
Bottom Rear Half Done (5:30) The curved pieces were fairly consistent across the whole design, but I still mostly followed the instructions. Beth had come home by this point, to find me still working... |
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Interlude: Tim and Cats I was having a great time. The cats were happy to have someone to hang around with. |
Bottom Rear Nearly Complete (6:00) Before I went to sleep, I wanted to at least finish off this side of things. |
Unfinished Side Partially Done (7:00) Of course, I forced myself to get a little bit more done, this time part of the "incomplete" side of the moon. |
Bottom Right Complete (7:00) But the time had come to get some sleep. |
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Bottom Right Complete, II (7:00) And so I went to bed, content with my work for the day, at about 1am. |
Unfinished Side Nearly Done (Day 2, 9:30) The next morning, I got up and started work again at 8am. |
Unfinished Side Attached (Day 2, 9:45) The unfinished side was more work than the rest of the set, and more tedious; but it does look kinda neat. |
Bottom Complete (Day 2, 10:30) I finished off the bottom of the Death Star by 11:30am, when I went off to grab some quick lunch. |
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Continuing to Build (Day 2, 11:15) Around here was when Beth got annoyed at me for not getting enough pictures. |
Continuing to Build (Day 2, 11:15) This somewhat corresponded to when she got up. |
Laser Installed (Day 2, 12:15) The laser design was definitely the coolest part of the set. |
Post-Laser Building (Day 2, 12:15) Even after the laser was finished, there was still work to do... |
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The Last Few Pieces (Day 2, 12:45) ...but by 2pm, I was just finishing them up. |
Filling in the Gaps (Day 2, 12:45) The last few pieces went onto the Death Star at about 2:15pm. |
Finished Product (Day 2, 13:00) And here's the finished Death Star! |
Finished Product, II (Day 2, 13:00) I think everybody's favorite part is the firing beam. |
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Finished Product, Back (Day 2, 13:00) I wish they hadn't covered the steering wheels, myself. |
Death Star and Cat The cats haven't done too much damage to the toy yet... |
Darth Jesse But you never know when those guys are going to turn evil, do you? |
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